AYOUNKON: Amel is part of “your eyes” project

According to UNHCR, there are 13.5 million Syrian refugees around the world in 2017.

Lebanon is the second hosting country of Syrians displaced persons, with over 1 million registered refugees from Syria, accounting to 20% of the total population.

Lebanese healthcare system, mainly private, cannot meet the on-growing demand for medical services. The majority of Syrian refugees does not have access to medical assistance especially ophthalmology treatments, a sector often neglected by the international humanitarian assistance.

During summer 2016, a team of ophthalmologists (Doctor Youssef Abdulmasih and Doctor Sylvain El-Khoury) from the Beirut Eye and ENT Specialist Hospital started to offer free eye screenings to refugees in the Western Bekaa valley.

AYOUNKON project takes it forward aiming at reach:

400 free eye exams for persons with severe visual disturbances

The distribution of 100 pair of spectacles for the correction of severe refraction defects

40 eye-saving surgeries for patients with severe ophthalmic diseases

The project is supported by

Amel International, a Lebanese NGO that provides the team with an equipped ophthalmologic room in its Primary Health Center of Kamed el Loz (Bekaa valley) and it is in charge of beneficiaries outreach

Beirut Eye and ENT Specialist Hospital, a specialised hospital, that agreed to offer low-cost surgeries with no profit purposes

This intervention is essential to improve visual health among vulnerable people in the Bekaa valley but also to significantly ameliorate their living conditions with trickle down effects on their economic and social life.

You could play an essential role helping us to bring forward these fundamental activities.

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Amel is a non-governmental organization, recognized as a public utility by presidential decree 5832 in 1994.
Amel is a non-profit, non sectarian organization that supports the most underprivileged populations in Lebanon.
Amel has currently 24 centers in the most underprivileged zones in Lebanon (Southern Suburbs of Beirut, Mount Lebanon, Bekaa Valley and South Lebanon).